Nail.



l:Lnwrs D. rowLEn, or oxtanoma'oxtnnomn.

NAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1914.

Application led December 12, 1912. Serial No. 736,249.

To all whom t'may concern Be it known that I, LEwrs D. FowLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oklahoma city, in the county of Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Nail, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

As nails and staples are now shaped, neither one will answer the purpose of the otherL. Moreover, a staple cannot be pulled out of a post or other object into which it is driven except by the aid of the wire or other member which is held or straddled by said staple.v

Anobject, therefore, of the invention is to provide a nail or like article which will answer the purpose of both a nail and sta le.

Other objects and advantages ofI the invention will be set forth in the ensuing description. Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is 1 a side elevation view. of the improved nail.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view. Fig. 3 is a fragmental perspective view of aI wooden box, with the improved nail in use holding wire thereof. Fig.. 4 is a perspective view showing the nail in use for securing wire'to a fence. Fig. 5 is a sectional view Jshowing two pieces of wood secured together by the nail, and showing how it clenches.

Referring to the several gures, in all of which like characters of reference designate like parts, the improved nail comprises a head 6 with two tangs or legs 7 and 8 depending integrally from it. While these tangs may be of the same or diii'erent size or shape in cross-section or be pointed in any suitable manner, one of them -1s made very much shorter than the other, the tang 8- in this instance being only about twofifths the length of the tang 7, and belng liln eiect, a small spur dependmg from said As is usual in the form of a nail, the head 6 is wider than its ta s 7 and 8, so that it can he cau ht by the claws of a hammer or other tool or pulling it, and in the present arrangement said head is made long enough to overhang both tangs.'

In building wire fence, the longer tang 7 4of the nail may be started into `the post 9 by a person having charge of the spacing of the wires 10, the wires then being strung and placed on said nails as shown in the lower ortion of Fig. 5, after which the latter is riven to place with its tangs astride said wires.

As arranged,the im roved nail is more adapted for clenching t an other nails, the point 11 of the longer tang 7 turning back toward and in line with the point 12 of the shorter tang 8 as shown in Fig. 5. With the nail clenched in this way, it forms a substantially C shaped holding element whose line of 1pull or tension is at right angles to the p ane of the parts 13 and 14 through which it passes; whereas, the clenching of the common nail forms a J- shaped holdin element whose line of pull can rarely be rought to the right angle.

Having thus described the invention I claim As a new article of manufacture, the herein described inishing nail including a flat head and two independent and spaced rongs projecting from the lower side of the liead and having a parallel relation to each other, the edges of the flat head overhanging both of the prongs on all sides and one of the prongs being longer than the other prong, both of the pron s being pointed and the extremity of the enger prong bemg adapted to be turned back to clench the nail FRANK P. SmerAnD, Jamas L. FowLnR. 

